A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.